Archive of category "Countries"
Lighter Handy, 1940, owned by members of the team minesweeper YMS-370
Title: Handy
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100
Lighters with wartime history are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting findings. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely analogous Dunhill Rollalite in design (I even can imagine that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was the model Dunhill Handy , other designs, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on the flint mechanism (by the way, looks and feels like it is completely silver, but copper yellowness on shabby corner gives silvering). Generally, the feelings in your hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so perfectly fit all the details and so neatly and securely all done (which is expected for Swiss products :). The cover when opening a spring leans just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years!
But history tells us the inscription on the cigarette lighter. It belonged to a team member minesweeper YMS-370. The history of this ship is quite brief. Ships series YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tons), which had no names - only the serial number. Total 1941 481 was built ship series YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The latest series of YMS ship was in service with the US Navy until November 1969.
YMS-370 was laid on 23 January 1943 at the dock of Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp and launched on August 7 of the same year. After serving only 3 years, it was decommissioned 19 June 1946 and finally sawed for scrap in 1948. But within a short time of service, he had visited many Asian countries, which are mentioned on this lighter, Philippines, China, Japan, Korea ... In the last two pictures - the ship itself and his team in the last year of service. To some of these sailors and officers in the picture belonged to this unique and lighter. Who were you, an unknown CDH?
17.07.2010 
Tags: Roller Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 
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Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910
Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: Semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper
Release year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200
Nassau lighters produced in New York, on Nassau street, since 1910 (although Pat Set 1905). It was one of the first automatic pocket lighters that time, the mechanism of action of such a principle was invented in Austria in 1909. There are many options of finishes, from simple to chromium plating silver and gold case. This lighter is attached emblem of Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance mutual benefit societies, founded in 1877 in Boston; it exists today.
13.07.2010 Tags: semi-automatic , fliptopy Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 18 comment (-ev)
Lighter Swiza, 1930
Title: Swiza
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
Small wonder the Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930s, maybe an older brother, and even the pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanics made with astonishing thoroughness and clarity, especially interesting cunning mechanism replacement flint. To replace the need to simultaneously pull two tiny rychazhochka then horizontal vane moves down towards the flint.
13.07.2010 Tags: Roller Topics: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 9 comment (-ev)
Lighter Cooperative from Myanmar, 1940-1950
Title: Cooperative
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Approximate cost: $ 10-20
Very amusing lighter. At first glance, it would be 100% for the English would have gone if I had not stamped on the bottom of the case: Made in Myanmar (ex. Burma). Surely not all even know about the existence of such a state! But here's the lighter there - there :)
03.07.2010 Tags: with removable lid Topics: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comments (-ev)
IMCO 4300 1936
Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper
Release year: 1936
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
The first models with removable lid Imco - construction easier to nowhere; than other models of the time it looks quite primitive, yet remains fully operational and reliable.
02.07.2010 Tags: with removable lid Topics: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No Comments
Lighter Hurricane, 1930
Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
Lighters Hurricane produced in Bradford in the 1930s, at the same time with the Zippo, and their production ended by the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More likely to occur in the Hurricane brass body, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of chrome and promotional label that rarely twice.
13.06.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Hurricane , USA 9 comment (-ev)
Table lighter The Giant, 1946
Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: Semi-board gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70
The log advertisement in 1946 argued that the lighter The Giant enough to fill only 4 times a year - and this is very similar to the truth :)
13.06.2010 Tags: desktop , semi Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No Comments
Table lighter Jumbo, 1950
Title: Jumbo
Type: Desktop gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
13.06.2010 Tags: liftarmy , table Categories: 1950 , Jumbo , Japan No Comments
Table lighter Swank, 1950
Title: Swank
Type: Desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
These lighters are made in Japan in the 1950s and used as a desktop in cafes and bars - due to giant size and weight accidentally carry it with me was impossible :) The second photo to zoom standing next regular lighter Zippo.
13.06.2010 Метки: лифтармы , настольные , роликовые Рубрики: 1950 , Swank , Япония 4 comments (-ev)
Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890
Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: Pistone gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Release year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This unique specimen - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, even before the invention of flint. Spark it made a special tape with fulminate Pistone (acid salts rattlesnake), and with its help ignited gasoline-soaked wick.
12.06.2010 Tags: without flint , Pistone Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comments (-ev)
Gilded lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930
Title: Segalock
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, gilding, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
12.06.2010 Метки: кожаные , лифтармы , позолоченные Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США No Comments
Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960
Type: Desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100
Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960s - a huge table lighter in the form of gasoline gas station (Zippo next set to scale). For lighting of it must be removed from the lateral opening of the wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about two feet long), push it into the hole in the upper part near the wheel and there is a spark to ignite the wick.
12.06.2010 Tags: desktop , sculptural Topics: 1960 , Untitled , Japan 7 comment (-ev)
Gas lighter Flaminaire, 1959
Title: Flaminaire Galet
Type: gas lighter with a removable gas block Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Release year: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-50
One of the first models of handheld gas lighters used replacement gas blocks Butabloc. The French firm Flaminaire first ever released to the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.
06-06-2010 Tags: gas , leather Categories: 1950 , Flaminaire , France 10 comment (-ev)
Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940
Title: Beattie Jet
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100
Gasoline pipe lighter with design 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and enhanced in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, besides the usual cotton wick fitted thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. With lightweight tilt housing lighted tube is heated flame lighters conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and move outward, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube openings. On the way out, they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' lateral flame, by which is convenient lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighters mid-20th century.
06-06-2010 Tags: liftarmy , reactive , Pipe Columns: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 comment (-ev)
Electronic table lighter Rowenta, 1960
Manufacturer: Rowenta
Title: Rowenta Electronic
Type: Desktop electronic gas lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
One of the first electronic lighters run on batteries, the classical model of the German company Rowenta. Equipped with a condenser, by means of which the valve was given a spark when you press the button while the button is pressed the valve opens.
24.05.2010 Метки: автоматические , газовые , настольные , электронные Рубрики: 1960 , Rowenta , Германия 3 comment (-ev)
